HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081538560
Bassin · #1081538560
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Ghanzi, Lethlakane
Sub-basin area
494,3km²
Upstream area
855,2km²
Discharge
0,11m³/s
Mean elev.
980m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081544860228 km²
- Bassin · #1081544790133 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 458.0 km²92.9% of basin
- 35.0 km²7.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Central Kalahari
IUCN IbGame Reserve
457.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 18 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,2°C
Annual rain
357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 812mm
AET
299mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
34cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)